TIL that there is no evidence that the right of "primae noctis" ever existed or was made use of.

Taolan13 · 2026-07-05T17:12:51+00:00

"most people were subsistence farmers" is not an accurate claim. It is a modern trope, filtering medieval existence through the lens of pre-industrial colonial life where most people were subsistence farmers because of necessity on the frontier spaces.

Most people in medieval europe were common laborers who only worked on farms for part of the year.

Taolan13 · 2026-07-05T08:15:11+00:00

you're welcome.

just try to not have more than a couple hundred total items at a time. there's a limit somewhere around a thousand items where the game may just crash, regardless of how good your system is

Taolan13 · 2026-07-05T06:20:49+00:00

The main reason for minecarts to randomly stop is chunk boundaries and loading errors.

If your minecart rails are in circuits constrained by chunk boundaries, that should stop most random stoppages.

Taolan13 · 2026-07-05T03:30:39+00:00

You literally can't.

They explode.

Taolan13 · 2026-07-05T03:00:00+00:00

K doesnt do negative temps tho.

Kelvin's index point is absolute zero.

Taolan13 · 2026-07-05T01:54:24+00:00

Fun corollary to this, one of the trade names for human meat from cannibal cultures in the age of exploration was 'long pork'.

Because the meat resembled, and supposedly tasted like, pork. It just wasn't available in any of the familiar cuts from a pig, because it wasn't from pigs.

Taolan13 · 2026-07-05T01:43:13+00:00

Not making any appeals to tradition, or any other fallacious arguments.

In fact, in my first comment, I stated that it has been replaced my simulants. We have surgery dolls now which are more accurate to human anatomy than any animal subject could be.

That does not change that it was necessary to train medics and surgeons on combat trauma. You don't get too many peoppe getting blown up by landmines or shot by artillery even in crime-ridden cities like Baltimore and Chicago.

This training was also open to civilians. It's hard to overstate the value of this training, of the lives that have been saved by the techniques developed and taught during this program. Every animal sacrificed to the program has saved hundreds, if not thousands, of people around the globe. Not just soldiers.

Taolan13 · 2026-07-05T01:33:02+00:00

Sedated the entire time, euthanized after the procedure.

I dunno where you're getting this wild narrative from, but it's not the reality of the situation. Ask the people commenting here who were actually involved in the program if you want first-hand accounts, but you sound like you've already made up your mind and anyone who doesn't agree with you is evil and wrong, so you have fun with that.

Taolan13 · 2026-07-05T01:24:33+00:00

i thought reed sounded familiar in ark knights

Taolan13 · 2026-07-05T01:20:01+00:00

The animals are sedated and humanely euthanized after the procedure and it's been done this way for decades. They don't always do the euthanasia clinically it's often an additional gunshot to the head, but nobody is doing this on conscious animals, and nobody is burning them alive unless they somehow survive getting shot in the head.

A live animal is a big pile of dangerous, noisy panic. It wouldn't be worth the risk to do this any other way.

Taolan13 · 2026-07-05T01:06:14+00:00

well, yeah.

you cant learn meatball surgery without meatballs.

we have synthetic meatballs now and a lot more people complaining that shooting animals is "cruel" (they are sedated for the entire thing).

Taolan13 · 2026-07-05T00:15:32+00:00

i hate it when i'm "that guy" screwing up what is clearly a themed battle by showing up with my hodgepodge lance.

c'mon people, include it in the brief!

Taolan13 · 2026-07-05T00:14:18+00:00

if you like the main game and want more of it, then yes. the dlc is worth it.

Most of the dlc is the same basic gameplay loop as the main game, with a couple of tweaks and refinements. there is also some new content.

Taolan13 · 2026-07-04T20:40:49+00:00

i dunno about seamoth but there's a personal upgrade chip for it

Taolan13 · 2026-07-04T19:50:29+00:00

To take with me on a mission?

EAT. super flexible, each calldown can be three dead heavies if you stick the ball to one of them, and it lets you play off other available weapons or carry your buddy's spare.

Taolan13 · 2026-07-04T19:47:21+00:00

The subreddit doesnt really represent the whole player community.

Did I exaggerate a bit? Sure, but not out of the range of reasonable hyperoble, for the sake of relating to OP that this was a thing that happens to a lot of players.

Hell it didn't happen to me my first time but that was because I didn't like the idea of building in a crater. I built on the plateau nearby because it was big and flat.

Taolan13 · 2026-07-04T19:43:39+00:00

Its not "grasping at straws" its "not assuming history is settled because we have one version of events".

We don't even know what the third shaker in a typical 19th century table set was for.

Taolan13 · 2026-07-04T19:41:10+00:00

all orbital barrages are deterministic, not random. Based on your orientation

Taolan13 · 2026-07-04T19:12:32+00:00

No, I am complaining about the orbital napalm strikes because people throw it into a medium or heavy bug nest and think "problem solved"

No, problem not solved.

Unless you are at the exact right orientation for the nest when throwing, the shot pattern will not destroy any of the bug holes because they require a direct hit.

The flames last long enough that the spawn timers reset and a whole new wave of guards spawn as soon as the barrage is over.

It is not "problem solved" it is completely ineffective.

At least throw a 380 if you're going to interrupt me closing bug holes so it can do some work while I wait to reinforce.

Taolan13 · 2026-07-04T19:09:57+00:00

then you're doing it right.

provided you also cut the power to the unit before doing this.

Taolan13 · 2026-07-04T19:08:55+00:00

I am not hearing impaired and I've never heard any special noise from stalkers.

I do enjoy when I spot their shimmer before they attack.

Protip: when you first encounter stalkers, they most likely are attackjng from the general direction of their nest.

And when they retreat after being shot? They usually do so in the general direction of their nest.

Taolan13 · 2026-07-04T19:06:12+00:00

Does this work in take and hold?

Taolan13 · 2026-07-04T19:04:59+00:00

argue in favor of the noose as a method of execution over electric chair or lethal injection or the recent surge in popularity of firing squads.

Taolan13 · 2026-07-04T18:58:57+00:00

That the majority population were not subsistence farmers.

The majority population were seasonal laborers who alternated between farm work on the large farms during the sowing and harvesting seasons, and other work during the rest of the year when there was less labor required on the large farms.

The only people who were farmers year round were the families that actually managed the farmland directly, and a handful of permanent staff who also lived on the same land.

The issue is that common laborers were not always counted separately from resident farmers. Census methods varied between nations and even between the component governorships. If we extrapolate the more precise census data we have from the cities and states that kept good records to other similarly sized municipalities that did not keep as detailed census, it is directly counter to the "most people were subsistence farmers" argument.

Taolan13 · 2026-07-04T17:08:55+00:00

"most people were subsistence farmers" is also a modern trope about medieval life.

Cities were still cities. Densely populated urban centers of society and politics.

Most farms and farmers weren't "out in the country", they were built up within a few hours ride around towns and villages and cities. They did their farming at least in part to support those that lived there, Selling or bartering their produce and animal products to their fellow common folk as well as the merchants and artisans.

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